Versatile 사설 바카라 Cutting for Neurological Sub-Assemblies

The Ch사설 바카라lenge

Motion Dynamics (Fruitport, MI) is a contract manufacturer specializing in custom micro springs, medical coils, and wire compo사설 바카라nts. They have a hard-ear사설 바카라d reputation for solving challenging problems in the shortest possible time, no matter how difficult or seemingly impossible. They have particular expertise in designing and manufacturing complex assemblies for 사설 바카라urovascular procedures – for applications such as steerable catheter devices, including “pull-wire” assemblies.

President Chris Witham states, “The company’s medical device business is based on a highly focused business model in neurovascular products, where we can offer differentiated results in terms of design, execution, and service. We need fast, versatile, and easy-to-use 사설 바카라 cutting machines to generate the components for high-value ‘difficult’ assemblies.” He explains that cutting flexibility and ease of use are critical machine requirements for Motion Dynamics, because these components are quite diverse in terms of size, shapes, and material, with only small to medium batches in most cases.

The Solution

The company had sever사설 바카라 years of experience using aStarCut Tube machi사설 바카라from Coherent. Until recently, this machi사설 바카라 was available with a choice of either anultrashort pulse 사설 바카라with femtosecond pulsing, or a more tradition사설 바카라High-Perform바카라featuring much slower pulsing. Witham explains that they chose a USP 사설 바카라 for this earlier machine, because it delivers superior edge quality and minimized kerf, which are critical in many of their components. In fact, the USP 사설 바카라 usually eliminates the need for mechanical post-processing. He adds that “There is no material we use that cannot yet be cut by a USP 사설 바카라, including the tiny gold components used as radio-opaque markers in some of our products.”

When their market growth meant that even two 40-hour/week shifts was not enough to keep pace with demand for their neurovascular assemblies, they decided to purchase another StarCut Tube machine. However, some of the components used by Motion Dynamics are made of thicker (up to 20 thou) material and could be more economically cut by using the faster processing speed of a fiber 사설 바카라.

The optimum solution was the latest StarCut Tube Hybrid machine that includes both a femtosecond 사설 바카라 and a fiber 사설 바카라, all integrated in the same compact platform with the same user-friendly GUI.

The Result

Witham states that the new machine’s flexibility is proving to be a major advantage, “Now we can choose which overall process – USP alone or fiber and post-process – is the most cost-effective for each component. This machine is even allowing us to explore the possibility of mixed processing of the same component, particularly where larger diameters and wall thicknesses are involved: namely fast cutting with the fiber 사설 바카라 followed by fine cutting with the femtosecond 사설 바카라.” He expects that the USP 사설 바카라 will still remain their first choice in many instances because the majority of their 사설 바카라 cutting involves stainless tubes with wall thicknesses between four and six thou.

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